New York in fiction . OM. 73 NEW YORK IN FICTION prosperous class of Russian Jews. Atthe time of the writing of the story con-siderable of this quarter remained. Itis now almost entirely extinct. Theschool in Christie Street attended byFlora Stroon was only recently torndown. On the east side of the Bowery,a little below Canal Street, was therestaurant in which Shaya was found l>yAzrael Stroon. On Norfolk Street, nearBroome, is the great synagogue Beth-Hamidrash Hagodal (the great houseof study). It was there in the vestryroom that Shaya Golub studied the Tal-mud. On the third floor of a ri
New York in fiction . OM. 73 NEW YORK IN FICTION prosperous class of Russian Jews. Atthe time of the writing of the story con-siderable of this quarter remained. Itis now almost entirely extinct. Theschool in Christie Street attended byFlora Stroon was only recently torndown. On the east side of the Bowery,a little below Canal Street, was therestaurant in which Shaya was found l>yAzrael Stroon. On Norfolk Street, nearBroome, is the great synagogue Beth-Hamidrash Hagodal (the great houseof study). It was there in the vestryroom that Shaya Golub studied the Tal-mud. On the third floor of a ricketyold tenement in Essex Street was thesweatshop of the Lipmans, described inA Sweatshop Romance. Boris andTatyana Lurie of Circumstances livedin Madison Street, and it was to roomson the second floor of a Cherry Streettenement-house that Nathan and Goldyrepaired after A Grhetto Henry Street was the first New 74 NEW YORK IN FICTION York home of the Everetts (Edgar Faw-cetts ^i New York Famihj) after their. STLDY ROOMS, THE CHEAT SYNAGO(;OE, NoKIDLlv S the IJIPORTED BlilDEGROOM. migration from Hoboken. The Everettchildren attended school in ScannelStreet. That was in the early half of the 75 NEW YORK IN FICTION century, when Broome, Prince, and Bondstreets were fashionable thoroughfares,and the best shops were on Grand Streetand the Bowery. With the passing ofthe Bend disappeared Mulberry Court, thestrange, grim, and picturesque bit ofproletarian New York that Edward has described in A DdKghtey ofthe Tenements. The entrance to the nar-row alley that led to the court was on thewest side of Mulberry Street, about fiftypaces below Bayard Street, and directlyopposite the Italian banks and the Italianlibrary. The site of Mulljerry Court ismarked by a tree that, surrounded by acircle of turf, stands in the northeastcorner of the new park. On the eastside of Baxter Street, south of Bayard,a tunnel leads back to the rear tenementwhere Carminella and
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